If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANEvolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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No greater victory can be won by citizens or soldiers than to transform temporary foes into permanent friends.
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If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
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The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.
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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
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If the Bible and the microscope do not agree, the microscope is wrong.
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Only those who believe attempt the seemingly impossible.
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Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends.
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Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
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Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
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Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
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If evolution wins, Christianity goes!
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If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.
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This nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth.
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Wars are sometimes waged to extend trade-the blood of many being shed to enrich a few.
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We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
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As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.
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You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
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A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.
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Facts mean nothing unless they are rightly understood, rightly related and rightly interpreted.
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If it weren’t for the lawyers we wouldn’t need them.
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When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity by trying to show what we will do if we are wrong.
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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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